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The Big Sort
- Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
- Narrado por: Paul Brion
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In 2004, journalist Bill Bishop coined the term "the big sort". Armed with startling new demographic data, he made national news in a series of articles showing how Americans have been sorting themselves into alarmingly homogeneous communities - not by region or by state but by city and even neighborhood. Over the past three decades, we have been choosing the neighborhoods (and churches and news shows) compatible with our lifestyles and beliefs. The result is a country that has become so polarized, so ideologically inbred, that people don't know and can't understand those who live a few miles away. How this came to be, and its dire implications for our country, is the subject of this groundbreaking work. In The Big Sort, Bishop has taken his analysis to a new level. He begins with stories about how we live today and then draws on history, economics, and our changing political landscape to create one of the most compelling big-picture accounts of America in recent memory.
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The term gentrification has become a buzzword to describe the changes in urban neighborhoods across the country, but we don't realize just how threatening it is. It means more than the arrival of trendy shops, much-maligned hipsters, and expensive lattes. The very future of American cities as vibrant, equitable spaces hangs in the balance. How to Kill a City takes listeners from the kitchen tables of hurting families who can no longer afford their homes to the corporate boardrooms and political backrooms where destructive housing policies are devised.
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Unproductive criticism.
- De Aaron Rogers en 06-01-18
De: Peter Moskowitz
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American Grace
- How Religion Divides and Unites Us
- De: Robert D. Putnam, David E. Campbell
- Narrado por: Dan John Miller
- Duración: 18 h y 54 m
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American Grace takes its findings from two of the largest, most comprehensive surveys ever conducted on religion and public life in America, plus in-depth studies of diverse congregations---among them a megachurch, a Mormon congregation, a Catholic parish, a reform Jewish synagogue, and an African American congregation.
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Interesting Analysis
- De Daniel en 10-08-12
De: Robert D. Putnam, y otros
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Bad Religion
- How We Became a Nation of Heretics
- De: Ross Douthat
- Narrado por: Lloyd James
- Duración: 13 h y 12 m
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Ross Douthat, the youngest-ever op-ed columnist for the New York Times, has emerged as one of the most provocative and influential voices of his generation. Now he offers a masterful and hard-hitting account of how American Christianity has gone off the rails - and why it threatens to take American society with it.
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Maybe not best as an audio book
- De Linwood en 05-02-12
De: Ross Douthat
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Happy City
- Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design
- De: Charles Montgomery
- Narrado por: Patrick Lawlor
- Duración: 12 h y 38 m
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After decades of unchecked sprawl, more people than ever are moving back to the city. Dense urban living has been prescribed as a panacea for the environmental and resource crises of our time. But is it better or worse for our happiness? Are subways, sidewalks, and tower dwelling improvements on the car dependence of sprawl?
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Great book-terrible narrator
- De Amazon Customer en 02-04-19
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Bowling Alone: Revised and Updated
- The Collapse and Revival of American Community
- De: Robert D. Putnam
- Narrado por: Arthur Morey
- Duración: 18 h y 56 m
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Drawing on vast new data that reveal Americans' changing behavior, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from one another and how social structures - whether they be PTA, church, or political parties - have disintegrated. Until the publication of this groundbreaking work, no one had so deftly diagnosed the harm that these broken bonds have wreaked on our physical and civic health, nor had anyone exalted their fundamental power in creating a society that is happy, healthy, and safe.
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Long Long book
- De William S. Gross en 11-13-17
De: Robert D. Putnam
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What It Takes
- The Way to the White House
- De: Richard Ben Cramer
- Narrado por: Keith Sellon-Wright
- Duración: 54 h y 35 m
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An American Iliad in the guise of contemporary political reportage, What It Takes penetrates the mystery at the heart of all presidential campaigns: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that makes a true candidate? As he recounts the frenzied course of the 1988 presidential race, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer comes up with the answers, in a book that is vast, exhaustively researched, exhilarating, and sometimes appalling in its revelations.
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Great political book
- De Hebern en 09-11-20
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White Rural Rage
- The Threat to American Democracy
- De: Tom Schaller, Paul Waldman
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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White rural voters hold the greatest electoral sway of any demographic group in the United States, yet rural communities suffer from poor healthcare access, failing infrastructure, and severe manufacturing and farming job losses. Rural voters believe our nation has betrayed them, and to some degree, they’re right. In White Rural Rage, Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman explore why rural Whites have failed to reap the benefits from their outsize political power and why, as a result, they are the most likely group to abandon democratic norms and traditions.
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Preaching to the choir
- De Mike en 03-07-24
De: Tom Schaller, y otros
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Humanly Possible
- Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Inquiry, and Hope
- De: Sarah Bakewell
- Narrado por: Antonia Beamish
- Duración: 14 h y 27 m
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Humanism is an expansive tradition of thought that places shared humanity, cultural vibrancy, and moral responsibility at the center of our lives. For centuries, this worldview has inspired people to make their choices by principles of freethinking, intellectual inquiry, fellow feeling, and optimism. In this sweeping new history, Sarah Bakewell, herself a lifelong humanist, illuminates the very personal, individual, and, well, human matter of humanism and takes listeners on a grand intellectual adventure.
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A glimmer of hope
- De RAY MONTECALVO en 04-14-23
De: Sarah Bakewell
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American Nations
- A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America
- De: Colin Woodard
- Narrado por: Walter Dixon
- Duración: 12 h y 51 m
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North America was settled by people with distinct religious, political, and ethnographic characteristics, creating regional cultures that have been at odds with one another ever since. Subsequent immigrants didn't confront or assimilate into an "American" or "Canadian" culture, but rather into one of the 11 distinct regional ones that spread over the continent each staking out mutually exclusive territory. In American Nations, Colin Woodard leads us on a journey through the history of our fractured continent....
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One of a Kind Masterpiece
- De Theo Horesh en 02-28-13
De: Colin Woodard
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The Color of Law
- A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America
- De: Richard Rothstein
- Narrado por: Adam Grupper
- Duración: 9 h y 32 m
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In this groundbreaking history of the modern American metropolis, Richard Rothstein explodes the myth that America's cities came to be racially divided through de facto segregation - that is, through individual prejudices, income differences, or the actions of private institutions like banks and real estate agencies. Rather, he incontrovertibly makes clear that it was de jure segregation - the laws and policy decisions passed by local, state, and federal governments - that actually promoted the discriminatory patterns that continue to this day.
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- De ProfGolf en 02-04-18
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The Happiness Hypothesis
- De: Jonathan Haidt
- Narrado por: Ryan Vincent Anderson
- Duración: 10 h y 18 m
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Jonathan Haidt skillfully combines two genres-philosophical wisdom and scientific research-delighting the listener with surprising insights. He explains, for example, why we have such difficulty controlling ourselves and sticking to our plans; why no achievement brings lasting happiness, yet a few changes in your life can have profound effects, and why even confirmed atheists experience spiritual elevation.
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Amazing book, terrible choice in voice.
- De JAMES en 02-05-19
De: Jonathan Haidt
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Of Boys and Men
- Why the Modern Male Is Struggling, Why It Matters, and What to Do About It
- De: Richard V. Reeves
- Narrado por: Richard V. Reeves
- Duración: 6 h y 55 m
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The father of three sons, a journalist, and a Brookings Institution scholar, Richard V. Reeves has spent twenty-five years worrying about boys both at home and work. His new book, Of Boys and Men, tackles the complex and urgent crisis of boyhood and manhood. Reeves looks at the structural challenges that face boys and men and offers fresh and innovative solutions that turn the page on the corrosive narrative that plagues this issue. Of Boys and Men argues that helping the other half of society does not mean giving up on the ideal of gender equality.
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Regretful of My Knee-jerk Reaction To This Title 😔
- De Hazel Winters en 10-13-22
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Big Sort
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- Amazon Customer
- 01-23-19
Build the Wall?
In the backdrop of highly vitriolic debate about the effectiveness and morality of walls that is dividing our nation , I read this sad but fascinating book about just that: the effectiveness and detriment of walls. This book about walls does not discuss metal or concrete, height or length, but discusses the walls being built ideologically around geographic locations, as well as social institutions. These walls hide the view of the humanity that we all share, from the viewer on the other side. Please read if you want to feel challenged an “unsafe” about your own political isolation. That’s what this book did for me. Fantastic and very needed book for these times. #hugapoliticalfoe
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- P Willis
- 08-07-24
Relevant, even though it was written in 2008
This is an absolutely fantastic book about how the country has become much more polarized because we seek out like-minded people in neighborhoods, churches, and clubs. I wish it could be updated for 2024.
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- Roshan Gupta
- 08-31-18
Outdated in 2018
Outdated in 2018, did not find it particularly insightful or compelling. Was probably a better read 10 years ago when written
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- 06-05-19
essential reading for any political analyst
this book is very important for anybody that analyzes political trends in the United States. a lot of what we're dealing with today has its roots in what this book talks about.
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- Todd
- 08-07-18
A little dated but still relevant
The best explanation I have yet read concerning how our nation evolved into what it is today.
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- 12-09-23
Authors must have had a crystal ball!
Well done, very enjoyable book! Would recommend to anyone who seeks to better understand today’s political landscape.
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- Maria
- 02-21-19
For data/history geeks
Data driven explanation of why people vote the way they do or are sorting themselves into insular groups. Too much data and facts for me to process. I gleaned interesting tidbits, but it took me forever to finish this book.
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- Szimonisz Family
- 08-15-20
Dry data but some interesting insights
Basically just reading the data from one study after another. The author did a poor job of connecting the dots - giving the reader/listener the "so what," and most frustratingly, absolutely no recommendations on how to solve the problem or improve the current state of affairs.
The book felt very dated, as it primarily focuses on the Bush vs. Kerry election cycle, so the present day reader can't help but wonder how much worse things must be now. Similarly, the book doesn't really touch on the power of the internet, algorithms, etc which has obviously changed our world dramatically.
I really struggled to finish this and considered giving up several times, but ultimately am glad I finished it because I did learn some interesting insights despite its flaws.
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- Courtland J Schafer
- 02-05-18
Everyone has something to learn from this book
I think everyone could learn something from this book. It is full of information on how we’ve sorted ourselves, and how that effects our daily lives. Highly recommend it.
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- goundo101
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Excellent book, but repetitive at times
interesting and informative. However, the author seems oddly hung up on religion - he seems desperate to categorize religion as a good, and to deny that the left is becoming less religious. He also seems to have a bias in favor of a strong central government, and laments that the tides seem to be going the other way. Finally, the narrator is very slow. Would play at ~1.2x.
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